expand icon
book An Introduction to Community Health 7th Edition by James McKenzie,Robert Pinger,Jerome Kotecki cover

An Introduction to Community Health 7th Edition by James McKenzie,Robert Pinger,Jerome Kotecki

Edition 7ISBN: 978-0763790110
book An Introduction to Community Health 7th Edition by James McKenzie,Robert Pinger,Jerome Kotecki cover

An Introduction to Community Health 7th Edition by James McKenzie,Robert Pinger,Jerome Kotecki

Edition 7ISBN: 978-0763790110
Exercise 2
Select one of the following individuals (all have been identified in this chapter), go to the library and do some additional reading or find two reliable Web sites, and then write a two-page paper on the person's contribution to community health.
Edward Jenner
John Snow
Lemuel Shattuck
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
Walter Reed
Explanation
Verified
like image
like image
Community health:
Community health is the condition of a group of people's health in the same small geographical area. It states certain procedures and situations for promoting, protecting, and safeguarding health conditions of community people.
Following are the contribution towards community health by Mr. EJ:
Mr. EJ is a scientist who found out smallpox vaccine. The first person to find out smallpox vaccine in the world was EJ. In eighteenth century, Mr. EJ has demonstrated the usage of vaccination by injecting a viral disease of cows (cowpox) on a boy at the time of smallpox epidemic. Here, he found that cowpox vaccine that was injected to boy has rendered the boy's immune towards smallpox. The boy was healthy after the vaccination.
Mr. EJ found a medicine for smallpox and even for public health to protect and prevent the community from smallpox. Therefore, these are the two contribution made by EJ towards community health.
close menu
An Introduction to Community Health 7th Edition by James McKenzie,Robert Pinger,Jerome Kotecki
cross icon